This year we must love Edinburgh for her soul rather than her looks. The EIF should be commended for making the best of a tricky hand, but the lodgings for its music programme bring to mind a fallen society beauty forced from her New Town villa into a rented bedsit. Edinburgh Park is a cathedral-sized
The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It s the same spirit stripped-down sets, an intimate setting just a different space. The Church Studios in North London is an institution, home to some of the most iconic records of the last three decades, including Eurythmics Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) and Adele s 25. From the hallowed Neve Room, Moses Boyd and his band remind us that the U.K. jazz scene still bangs. They also remind us that COVID-19 regulations are much stricter across the pond: physical distancing is the name of the game in this at home concert.
Record Time: New & Notable Vinyl Releases (January 2021) By Robert Ham | January 29, 2021 | 1:21pm Record Time is Paste’s monthly column that takes a glimpse into the wide array of new vinyl releases that are currently flooding record stores around the world. Rather than run down every fresh bit of wax in the marketplace, we’ll home in on special editions, reissues and unusual titles that come across our desk with an interest in discussing both the music and how it is pressed and presented. This month, that includes new pressings of reggae classics, a sweat-inducing live recording of a blues-rock mainstay and a series of funk-jazz reissues with a psychedelic twist.
Updated Rachel D Arcy A Christmas song produced by Aylesbury Vinyl on Wednesdays stalwart Jay Burnett is being streamed in its thousands by music fans across the globe. Little Christmas, by Rachel D Arcy has been described as the John Lewis Christmas song that never was and in the style of a timeless Christmas classic, embodies the feelings of 2020, this most difficult of years. In non-Covid times, producer Jay Burnett is a regular face at Temple Street Wine Bar s Vinyl on Wednesdays evenings, and has produced amazing songs during a formidable career for bands including The Beastie Boys. Vinyl on Wednesdays co-founder Kris Needs said of the Rachel D Arcy tracks, which can be streamed by clicking HERE : Anyone wondering where the timeless Christmas anthems, bathed in love and glorious winter sunshine, have gone need look no further. Playful, uplifting and guaranteed to raise a smile. A perfect Tier 4 blues antidote.